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PFC Green Technology Worth Pennies Brings Millions

Global warming represents a serious issue taken into consideration by Marvell, an eco-friendly company aiming to embrace a series of green technologies that can deliver appropriate solutions to daily challenges. Their Footprint Zero campaign is meant to increase the people's level of awareness regarding the cu...

6 December 2011
07:50 GMT

Why Cell Phones and Airplanes Don't Mix

Experts reveal that using your cell phone or wireless device inside the airplane will probably not bring it down, but it will land you in a confrontation with the other passengers and the flight attendants. Since 1991, the use of cell phones was banned in commercial airliners, but scientists reveal that there is litt...

22 December 2009
03:53 GMT

Plasma Prototype Devices Can Destroy MRSA

Two new devices, created by German scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, and Japan-based ADTEC Plasma Technology Ltd., show tremendous promise in fighting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), as well as other resilient bacteria. The two instruments are low-temperature pla...

26 November 2009
16:01 GMT

Future Gadgets Have to Learn to 'Eat Less'

The International Energy Agency (IEA), the main international organization in charge with assessing and regulating the amounts of electricity that are being consumed on the globe each year, is urging increased awareness of the issues surrounding gadgets ranging from computers to cell phones and PDAs. While these devi...

25 May 2009
18:31 GMT

New: DIY Linux Cellphone Components

Cellular networking and GPS daughtercards... that's the new offer coming from Gumstix Linux vendor. The daughtercards will be called Goliath and they should work with Gumstix's single board computer, Verdex (Gumstix being well known as a SBC - single board PC- manufacturer), which is based on Intel's ...

14 July 2007
10:21 GMT

Flexible, Washable Electronics Made with Elastic Circuit Connectors

Flexible electronics, also known as flex circuits or flex circuit boards, represent a technology for building electronic circuits by depositing electronic devices on flexible substrates such as plastic or even organic materials.A new generation of flexible circuit connectors could produce a new class of electronic ap...

11 July 2007
11:11 GMT

Nanomachines Powered by Bacteria

A new discovery in the field of nanotechnology could produce the smallest "engines" in the world. The best part is that scientists will be able to remotely control them using rays of UV light that make a group of bacteria push the nanomachines both in straight line and on curved trajectories.Researchers led by Min J...

11 July 2007
09:12 GMT

Listening for Microbes in Beer Can Make It Tastier

A new technology helps scientists know what's happening inside fermentation processes, like those that produce beer, but also pharmaceuticals, without sticking their fingers inside the product. This new acoustic method can improve the quality of the finished product.Beer is produced in large tanks, where large...

5 July 2007
09:48 GMT

World Cup 2007 for Nanobots

Football, or soccer, as it is known outside Europe, is the king of sports on the continent. The World Cup is held every 4 years and the next one will take place in South Africa, in 2010. But there's another world cup scheduled this year, where this sport is hoped to attract a lot of fans.Nanofootball or nanosoc...

29 June 2007
10:23 GMT

Cavium Networks to Sample New Octeon Multicore Storage Services Processor

Cavium Networks is a Mountain View, California-based company specialized in MIPS-based network services and security processors. Cavium Networks offers processor and board level solutions targeting Routers, Switches, Appliances, Storage and Servers. Products range in performance from 100 Mbit/s to 10 Gbit/s with bro...

28 June 2007
15:46 GMT

Japanese Developed Mind-controlled Electronic Devices

The Japanese company Hitachi developed a brain-machine interface, a new technology that allows you to control electronic devices without lifting a finger. It does that by reading brain activity and analyzing slightchanges in the brain's blood flow to detect brain motion, which is then translated into electric s...

23 June 2007
06:15 GMT

Replacing Device Manager

Installing an Operating System can prove to many PC users, but not only, to be a pain in the neck. And that is because in this neverending upgrade of hardware your OS, mostly if it is older, might lack information about your recently installed hardware. After completing the installation of your hardware, your OS will...

17 April 2007
05:54 GMT

The Coleman Cordless Blender Lets You Prepare Cocktails Outdoors

Here's a device that could give you cool blender drinks for hot summer days. The Coleman Cordless Blender is a portable blender that recharges via AC or DC outlets. The device lets you blend up to 10 gallons of your favorite beverage on a single charge. It combines the convenience of rechargeable batteries with ...

4 April 2007
06:59 GMT

TV Volume Generator Kills Loud Commercials

Oh man, I wish people wouldn't get so excited about those mad advertising marathon night shows. There's no solution to that. But hey, here's something that might solve a related problem though: loud annoying TV commercials. Imagine trying to press the mute button every time you hear a stupid slogan lik...

20 March 2007
12:45 GMT

Rapex, a Female Condom-Like Anti-Rape Device

I'm sure you heard about all kinds of anti-rape devices. You know, belts that once installed, couldn't allow rapists to hold victims down and open the protection belt at the same time. Well, now there are other anti-rape solutions. Rapex is a condom-like anti-rape device which has fish-like teeth. Once intr...

20 March 2007
11:52 GMT

Elephant Trunk-Like Device Sucks Up Lunar Soil

It's the trunk which makes the elephant so likable for most people. No wonder two scientists are working on a new handy trunk-device (well, that's not their only purpose, maybe they want people to like them too). Benjamin Eimer and Lawrence Taylor, both of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, US, thoug...

20 March 2007
04:08 GMT


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